Bush’s glib statements don’t appear to be winning him wars or any support, as the bottom link to a Wired artcle on the latest polls shows.
As far as I see it, one of the problems with the “war” in Iraq is that there isn’t actually a war going on.  We’ve got lots of troops over […]

Let me explain.  One of Microsoft’s favorite marketing ploys is to pre-announce a product in a market they’d like to compete in months, years, or even indefinately (in the case it’s never produced) before they actualy come out with a product, just to kill the competition.
Because hey, if MS is releasing XYZ 2000, why buy […]

Apparently even Germany is getting in on the act of complaining that Telcos don’t make enough money.  The German telephone co  Deutsche Telekom believes it can extract more money by working both sides of the line and making everyone pay for what’s transfered over lines as well as access to those lines.
Basically, these asshats want […]

Can’t make up headlines like this.  It seems that two authors of a moderatley successful series of books are suing the author of a really successful series of books  over stealing their wholly novel idea that Christ had a child.  Now, not that they were the first to put this in print (although possibly the […]

I’ve been lax at injecting humour, sticking to the somewhat weightier subjects of world and tech politic.  So!  Without further ado, here’s a funny piece on what one security tester did to stop someone from hogging all of the hotel’s bandwith.
Sometimes it’s not about hacking, it’s about kicking a shmuck off the network so you […]

Alright.  So the MPAA finally noticed USENET and binary file transfers via RAR and parchive.  Had to happen sometime.  What strikes me as odd is that anyone that comments on the subject always includes a little snippet about how “if only they’d sell us reasonable product on fair terms, this would all go away!”
I hate […]

Looks like I’ve once again given the boys from Redmond a bit too much credit.  Since they don’t want to publish interoperability specs, they’re now trying to court public opinion against the EU in the .. er.. EU.  Good luck with trying to prove you’re a nice, fuzzy, soft corporate behemoth from America to the […]

When media companies have to defend their legitimacy in using the online equivelent of air, we all suffer.

Looks like the boys over at The Register didn’t like the Yahoo! Go! mobile phone software suite much.  And from the report, with good reason.  Somone over at Yahoo thought that cramming an entire suite of what look to be underconfigured PC software onto a mobile phone was a good idea.
Needless to say, it’s not […]

Apple’s starting to be a victim of their own success.  Common exploits for basic applications are starting to turn up on the OS X platform at a rate unseen on BSD.  Looks like adding all that glitz results in a more exploitable system.
Secunia - Mac OS X Command Execution Vulnerability Test
Michael Lehn has discovered a […]